Tuesday, January 18, 2011

in a new chair! We only had 2 of our beloved ikea chairs at our dinner table and dinner guests were needing to BYOC! So in an effort to fix the problem we found a 4 chair yard sale find and cleaned them right up! They aren't quite as sleek as our other 2 chairs but inexpensive and I think the mix of chairs works well- much more exciting than having them all the same.

For the clean-up I just used white primer and applied 2 coats to the chairs all over. Then found some khaki cushions that gave the chairs some extra comfort!

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Here's the latest cupcake experiment! I made them for my brother's birthday and they turned out delicious! It was a bit of a process determining how to fill the cake with filling and disguise it. I ended up just cutting small sections from the center of each cupcake, filling the holes with cream and then replacing the tops!

This cupcake was chocolate cake, with a cream filling, chocolate ganache and piped buttercream for the icing!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

I love to bake and it is my dream to one day open a bakery of my own. So.. as a fun way to work my way there I am challenging myself to create 1 cupcake a month. That's one recipe for cake and icing that I create. Any recipes I find, I must alter them in some way to make them my own.